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Black Women for Wellness' Carmen Taylor-Jones Interviews Crystal Mitchel for the Black Women & COVID A Moment In Time project.

Black Women for Wellness' Carmen Taylor-Jones Interviews Patti Colston.

Carmon Taylor-Jones of Black Women for Wellness Interviews Dr. Rhonda Brinkley Kennedy.

Rev. Najuma Smith-Pollard, program manager at USC Center for Community Engagement, explains her work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Black women from the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Beta Zeta Zeta Chapter explain why they choose to get vaccinated. Visit https://closingthehealthgap.org/

Meet the Black female scientist on the forefront of COVID-19 vaccine development

Health

President Biden Names Marcella Nunez-Smith as Covid Equity Task Force Chair.

Morehouse School of Medicine president Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice is a member of the Black Coalition Against COVID, which is committed to ensuring the vaccines are safe for Black people.

Over the last eight months, 35-year-old Cynthia Adinig has been to the hospital upwards of 20 times for debilitating symptoms related to long-haul covid-19, ranging from heart palpitations to severe malnutrition.

How COVID-19 adds to fears of pregnant black women

Is COVID-19 making Black birth more complicated?

Black women are at a higher risk of contracting and dying from COVID-19.

Is COVID-19 making Black birth more complicated?

Pregnant Women With COVID-19 Face Higher Risk of Death

 

Personal & Social

Sharon Caw is usually a librarian for the LA County Library. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she's making sure county residents are fed by working as a Disaster Service Worker.

Living Through the COVID Pandemic as a Single Woman | Black Women OWN the Conversation

Activist Bree Newsome offers her unique perspective on COVID-19 as a grassroots organizer.

Spirituality

Dr. Shalonda Crawford of the Experience Christian Ministries provides essential resources to families during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Shalonda Crawford of the Experience Christian Ministries provides essential resources to families during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rev. Judi Wortham, CA Statewide Director for the COVID-19 Testing Program, explains how an outreach program was started at the First AME Church in South Los Angeles.

 

Testing

Dr. Ala Stanford started the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium to serve communities with limited access to coronavirus testing.

Talk show host Star Jones discusses how Black women are coping during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Young Black people share stories of becoming ill with COVID-19 and figuring out how to get tested.

Grief

How COVID-19 Changed Mourning in a Black-Owned Funeral Home.

 
 
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